MAD comic books issue 288
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Issue #288
Mad (1952 EC) #288$4.20
$3.80
$2.65
Cover by Richard Williams. Stories and art by Al Jaffee, Dick DeBartolo, John S. Marshall, Stan Hart, Tom Koch, Chris Hart, Mike Snider, Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola, Paul Peter Porges, Don (Duck) Edwing, Frank Jacobs, Mort Drucker, Paul Coker Jr., Sam Viviano, Bob Jones, Rick Tulka, George Woodbridge, Irving Schild, Angelo Torres, Bob Clarke, Jack Davis, Dave Berg, and Sergio Aragones. Spoofs of 1980s movies Working Girl and Twins, featuring art by Mort Drucker and Angelo Torres. Mad's focus on '80s hair-metal bands includes a spoof of a heavy-metal magazine, a parody of a song by Poison, and a quiz. If certain real people were superheroes. Mad's takes on junk mail, baldness, and self-defense. Lighter Side strips by Dave Berg, Marginals by Sergio Aragones, and Spy vs. Spy. Letters page includes a photo of Johnny Depp reading Mad's 21 Jump Street spoof. Twinge; A Mad Look at Self-Defense; New Comic Book Superheroes Based on Real People; The Star Wars Defense System Can't Fail!; Leather Clothes Must be Worn (Poison song parody); Mad Switcheroos; A Mad Guide to Lesser-Known Hollywood Tourist Traps; Mad's Heavy Metal Quiz; Scientific Advances That Unimprove Our Lives; The Diabolical Dungeon Deception; Lurking Girl; Spy vs. Spy; Mad's Cheap and Painless Methods for Overcoming Baldness at Little Expense and Even Less Pain; The Lighter Side of...; Deceptive Ways to Get Junk Mail Senders to Excitedly Open Your Reply!; The Ghastly Gallows Good-Bye; Dreary John; The Inconceivable Island Incident; Fold-In; Metal Sludge Magazine. 8.5-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, B&W. Cover price $1.50.
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Issue #288
Published Apr 1986 by Thorpe & Porter.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
